In this paper, we are going to derive four numerical methods for solving the Modified Kortweg-de Vries (MKdV) equation using fourth Pade approximation for space direction and Crank Nicolson in the time direction. Two ...In this paper, we are going to derive four numerical methods for solving the Modified Kortweg-de Vries (MKdV) equation using fourth Pade approximation for space direction and Crank Nicolson in the time direction. Two nonlinear schemes and two linearized schemes are presented. All resulting schemes will be analyzed for accuracy and stability. The exact solution and the conserved quantities are used to highlight the efficiency and the robustness of the proposed schemes. Interaction of two and three solitons will be also conducted. The numerical results show that the interaction behavior is elastic and the conserved quantities are conserved exactly, and this is a good indication of the reliability of the schemes which we derived. A comparison with some existing is presented as well.展开更多
The aim of this paper is to give an appropriate numerical method to solve Allen-Cahn equation, with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition. The time discretization involves an explicit scheme for the nonlinear part o...The aim of this paper is to give an appropriate numerical method to solve Allen-Cahn equation, with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition. The time discretization involves an explicit scheme for the nonlinear part of the operator and an implicit Euler discretization of the linear part. Finite difference schemes are used for the spatial part. This finally leads to the numerical solution of a sparse linear system that can be solved efficiently.展开更多
A group of asymmetric difference schemes to approach the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is given here. According to such schemes, the full explicit difference scheme and the full implicit one, an alternating segme...A group of asymmetric difference schemes to approach the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is given here. According to such schemes, the full explicit difference scheme and the full implicit one, an alternating segment explicit-implicit difference scheme for solving the KdV equation is constructed. The scheme is linear unconditionally stable by the analysis of linearization procedure, and is used directly on the parallel computer. The numerical experiments show that the method has high accuracy.展开更多
In this paper,a implicit difference scheme is proposed for solving the equation of one_dimension parabolic type by undetermined paameters.The stability condition is r=αΔt/Δx 2 1/2 and the truncation error is o(...In this paper,a implicit difference scheme is proposed for solving the equation of one_dimension parabolic type by undetermined paameters.The stability condition is r=αΔt/Δx 2 1/2 and the truncation error is o(Δt 4+Δx 4) It can be easily solved by double sweeping method.展开更多
A memory reduction technique is proposed for solving stationary kinetic model equations. As implied by an integral solution of the stationary kinetic equation, a velocity distribution function can be reconstructed fro...A memory reduction technique is proposed for solving stationary kinetic model equations. As implied by an integral solution of the stationary kinetic equation, a velocity distribution function can be reconstructed from given macroscopic variables. Based on this fact, we propose a technique to reconstruct distribution function at discrete level, and employ it to develop an implicit numerical method for kinetic equations. The new implicit method only stores the macroscopic quantities which appear in the collision term, and does not store the distribution functions. As a result, enormous memory requirement for solving kinetic equations is totally relieved. Several boundary conditions, such as, inlet, outlet and isothermal boundaries, are discussed. Some numerical tests demonstrate the validity and efficiency of the technique.The new implicit solver provides nearly identical solution as the explicit kinetic solver, while the memory requirement is on the same order as the Navier–Stokes solver.展开更多
A monotone compact implicit finite difference scheme with fourth-order accuracy in space and second-order in time is proposed for solving nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. An accelerated monotone iterative metho...A monotone compact implicit finite difference scheme with fourth-order accuracy in space and second-order in time is proposed for solving nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. An accelerated monotone iterative method for the resulting discrete problem is presented. The sequence of iteration converges monotonically to the unique solution of the discrete problem, and the convergence rate is either quadratic or nearly quadratic, depending on the property of the nonlinear reaction. The numerical results illustrate the high accuracy of the proposed scheme and the rapid convergence rate of.the iteration.展开更多
Time fractional diffusion equation is usually used to describe the problems involving non-Markovian random walks. This kind of equation is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by replacing the first-order tim...Time fractional diffusion equation is usually used to describe the problems involving non-Markovian random walks. This kind of equation is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by replacing the first-order time derivative with a fractional derivative of order α∈(0, 1). In this paper, an implicit finite difference scheme for solving the time fractional diffusion equation with source term is presented and analyzed, where the fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. Stability and convergence of this scheme are rigorously established by a Fourier analysis. And using numerical experiments illustrates the accuracy and effectiveness of the scheme mentioned in this paper.展开更多
In this paper, an implicit scheme (also called the θ method) was proposed for the Lattice Bhatager-Gross-Krook (LBGK) model simulating incompressible flows. The new parameter θ made the model more flexible. Through ...In this paper, an implicit scheme (also called the θ method) was proposed for the Lattice Bhatager-Gross-Krook (LBGK) model simulating incompressible flows. The new parameter θ made the model more flexible. Through the Chapman-Enskog procedure the impressible Navie-Stokes equations could be recovered with the coupled kinetic viscosity. Boundary conditions were treated briefly and it kept the numerical accuracy of the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). The two-dimensional Poiseuille flow was simulated with different values of the parameters. It is found that the numerical accuracy and stability of the implicit scheme can be improved if some adaptable parameters are chosen.展开更多
Three dimensional Euler equations are solved in the finite volume form with van Leer's flux vector splitting technique. Block matrix is inverted by Gauss-Seidel iteration in two dimensional plane while strongly im...Three dimensional Euler equations are solved in the finite volume form with van Leer's flux vector splitting technique. Block matrix is inverted by Gauss-Seidel iteration in two dimensional plane while strongly implicit alternating sweeping is implemented in the direction of the third dimension. Very rapid convergence rate is obtained with CFL number reaching the order of 100. The memory resources can be greatly saved too. It is verified that the reflection boundary condition can not be used with flux vector splitting since it will produce too large numerical dissipation. The computed flow fields agree well with experimental results. Only one or two grid points are there within the shock transition zone.展开更多
We study numerical methods for level set like equations arising in image processing and curve evolution problems. Semi-implicit finite volume-element type schemes are constructed for the general level set like equati...We study numerical methods for level set like equations arising in image processing and curve evolution problems. Semi-implicit finite volume-element type schemes are constructed for the general level set like equation (image selective smoothing model) given by Alvarez et al. (Alvarez L, Lions P L, Morel J M. Image selective smoothing and edge detection by nonlinear diffusion II. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 1992, 29: 845-866). Through the reasonable semi-implicit discretization in time and co-volume method for space approximation, we give finite volume schemes, unconditionally stable in L∞ and W1'2 (W1'1) sense in isotropic (anisotropic) diffu- sion domain.展开更多
The key problem in the computation of fluid dynamics using fine boundary-fitted grids is how to improve the numerical stability and decrease the calculating quantity. To solve this problem, implicit schemes should be ...The key problem in the computation of fluid dynamics using fine boundary-fitted grids is how to improve the numerical stability and decrease the calculating quantity. To solve this problem, implicit schemes should be adopted since explicit schemes may bring about a great increase in computation quantity according to the Courant-FrledrichsLewy condition. Whereas the adoption of implicit schemes is difficult to be realized because of the existence of two partial derivatives of surface elevations with respect to variables of alternative direction coordinates in each momentum equation in non-rectangular coordinates. With an aim to design an implicit scheme in non-reetangular ccordinates in the present paper, new momentum equations with the contravariant components of velocity vector are derived based on the shallow water dynamic equations in generalized curvilinear coordinates. In each equation, the coefficients before the two detivatives of surface elevations have different orders of magnitude, i. e., the derivative with the larger ceefficient rnay play a more important role than that with the smaller one. With this advantage, the ADI scheme can then be easily employed to improve the numerical stability and decrease the calculating quantity. The calculation in a harbour and a channel in Macau nearshore area shows that the implicit model is effective in calculating current fields in small size areas.展开更多
Most algorithms of the immersed boundary method originated by Peskin are explicit when it comes to the computation of the elastic forces exerted by the immersed boundary to the fluid. A drawback of such an explicit ap...Most algorithms of the immersed boundary method originated by Peskin are explicit when it comes to the computation of the elastic forces exerted by the immersed boundary to the fluid. A drawback of such an explicit approach is a severe restriction on the time step size for maintaining numerical stability. An implicit immersed boundary method in two dimensions using the lattice Boltzmann approach has been proposed. This paper reports an extension of the method to three dimensions and its application to simulation of a massive flexible sheet interacting with an incompressible viscous flow.展开更多
Many interesting applications of hyperbolic systems of equations are stiff,and require the time step to satisfy restrictive stability conditions.One way to avoid small time steps is to use implicit time integration.Im...Many interesting applications of hyperbolic systems of equations are stiff,and require the time step to satisfy restrictive stability conditions.One way to avoid small time steps is to use implicit time integration.Implicit integration is quite straightforward for first-order schemes.High order schemes instead also need to control spurious oscillations,which requires limiting in space and time also in the linear case.We propose a framework to simplify considerably the application of high order non-oscillatory schemes through the introduction of a low order implicit predictor,which is used both to set up the nonlinear weights of a standard high order space reconstruction,and to achieve limiting in time.In this preliminary work,we concentrate on the case of a third-order scheme,based on diagonally implicit Runge Kutta(DIRK)integration in time and central weighted essentially non-oscillatory(CWENO)reconstruction in space.The numerical tests involve linear and nonlinear scalar conservation laws.展开更多
Strong convergence theorems for approximation of common fixed points of asymptotically Ф-quasi-pseudocontractive mappings and asymptotically C-strictly- pseudocontractive mappings are proved in real Banach spaces by ...Strong convergence theorems for approximation of common fixed points of asymptotically Ф-quasi-pseudocontractive mappings and asymptotically C-strictly- pseudocontractive mappings are proved in real Banach spaces by using a new composite implicit iteration scheme with errors. The results presented in this paper extend and improve the main results of Sun, Gu and Osilike published on J. Math. Anal. Appl.展开更多
In this paper, an explicit three_level symmetrical differencing scheme with parameters for solving parabolic partial differential equation of three_dimension will be considered. The stability condition and local trunc...In this paper, an explicit three_level symmetrical differencing scheme with parameters for solving parabolic partial differential equation of three_dimension will be considered. The stability condition and local truncation error for the scheme are r<1/2 and O( Δ t 2+ Δ x 4+ Δ y 4+ Δ z 4) ,respectively.展开更多
The tempered fractional calculus has been successfully applied for depicting the time evolution of a system describing non-Markovian diffusion particles.The related governing equations are a series of partial differen...The tempered fractional calculus has been successfully applied for depicting the time evolution of a system describing non-Markovian diffusion particles.The related governing equations are a series of partial differential equations with tempered fractional derivatives.Using the polynomial interpolation technique,in this paper,we present three efficient numerical formulas,namely the tempered L1 formula,the tempered L1-2 formula,and the tempered L2-1_(σ)formula,to approximate the Caputo-tempered fractional derivative of orderα∈(0,1).The truncation error of the tempered L1 formula is of order 2-α,and the tempered L1-2 formula and L2-1_(σ)formula are of order 3-α.As an application,we construct implicit schemes and implicit ADI schemes for one-dimensional and two-dimensional time-tempered fractional diffusion equations,respectively.Furthermore,the unconditional stability and convergence of two developed difference schemes with tempered L1 and L2-1_(σ)formulas are proved by the Fourier analysis method.Finally,we provide several numerical examples to demonstrate the correctness and effectiveness of the theoretical analysis.展开更多
In this work we propose a numerical scheme for a nonlinear and degenerate parabolic problem having application in petroleum reservoir and groundwater aquifer simulation. The degeneracy of the equation includes both lo...In this work we propose a numerical scheme for a nonlinear and degenerate parabolic problem having application in petroleum reservoir and groundwater aquifer simulation. The degeneracy of the equation includes both locally fast and slow diffusion (i.e. the diffusion coefficients may explode or vanish in some point). The main difficulty is that the true solution is typically lacking in regularity. Our numerical approach includes a regularization step and a standard discretization procedure by means of C0-piecewise linear finite elements in space and backward-differences in time. Within this frame work, we analyze the accuracy of the scheme by using an integral test function and obtain several error estimates in suitable norms.展开更多
Automated simulating of power electronics systems is currently performed by means of nodal analysis method combined with implicit numerical integration schemes. Such method allows to find transient solutions, even whe...Automated simulating of power electronics systems is currently performed by means of nodal analysis method combined with implicit numerical integration schemes. Such method allows to find transient solutions, even when the integrated system is stiff, however, it leads to some difficulties when simulating big systems and sometimes to the deterioration of computations quality, that is reflected in decrease in accuracy, oscillations of solutions, which are not present in the initial model. This paper analyzes the shortcomings of this approach, and proposes to apply explicit numerical schemes with stability control on the integration step and with reduction of some of state variables. A brief description of the method of finding transient solutions and an example of the analysis are also given in the present paper.展开更多
This research paper represents a numerical approximation to non-linear two-dimensional reaction diffusion equation from population genetics. Since various initial and boundary value problems exist in two-dimensional r...This research paper represents a numerical approximation to non-linear two-dimensional reaction diffusion equation from population genetics. Since various initial and boundary value problems exist in two-dimensional reaction-diffusion, phenomena are studied numerically by different numerical methods, here we use finite difference schemes to approximate the solution. Accuracy is studied in term of L2, L∞ and relative error norms by random selected grids along time levels for comparison with exact results. The test example demonstrates the accuracy, efficiency and versatility of the proposed schemes. It is shown that the numerical schemes give better solutions. Moreover, the schemes can be easily applied to a wide class of higher dimension nonlinear reaction diffusion equations with a little modification.展开更多
文摘In this paper, we are going to derive four numerical methods for solving the Modified Kortweg-de Vries (MKdV) equation using fourth Pade approximation for space direction and Crank Nicolson in the time direction. Two nonlinear schemes and two linearized schemes are presented. All resulting schemes will be analyzed for accuracy and stability. The exact solution and the conserved quantities are used to highlight the efficiency and the robustness of the proposed schemes. Interaction of two and three solitons will be also conducted. The numerical results show that the interaction behavior is elastic and the conserved quantities are conserved exactly, and this is a good indication of the reliability of the schemes which we derived. A comparison with some existing is presented as well.
文摘The aim of this paper is to give an appropriate numerical method to solve Allen-Cahn equation, with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition. The time discretization involves an explicit scheme for the nonlinear part of the operator and an implicit Euler discretization of the linear part. Finite difference schemes are used for the spatial part. This finally leads to the numerical solution of a sparse linear system that can be solved efficiently.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.10671113)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China(No.Y2003A04)
文摘A group of asymmetric difference schemes to approach the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is given here. According to such schemes, the full explicit difference scheme and the full implicit one, an alternating segment explicit-implicit difference scheme for solving the KdV equation is constructed. The scheme is linear unconditionally stable by the analysis of linearization procedure, and is used directly on the parallel computer. The numerical experiments show that the method has high accuracy.
文摘In this paper,a implicit difference scheme is proposed for solving the equation of one_dimension parabolic type by undetermined paameters.The stability condition is r=αΔt/Δx 2 1/2 and the truncation error is o(Δt 4+Δx 4) It can be easily solved by double sweeping method.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11602091 and 91530319)the National Key Research and Development Plan(2016YFB0600805)
文摘A memory reduction technique is proposed for solving stationary kinetic model equations. As implied by an integral solution of the stationary kinetic equation, a velocity distribution function can be reconstructed from given macroscopic variables. Based on this fact, we propose a technique to reconstruct distribution function at discrete level, and employ it to develop an implicit numerical method for kinetic equations. The new implicit method only stores the macroscopic quantities which appear in the collision term, and does not store the distribution functions. As a result, enormous memory requirement for solving kinetic equations is totally relieved. Several boundary conditions, such as, inlet, outlet and isothermal boundaries, are discussed. Some numerical tests demonstrate the validity and efficiency of the technique.The new implicit solver provides nearly identical solution as the explicit kinetic solver, while the memory requirement is on the same order as the Navier–Stokes solver.
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文摘A monotone compact implicit finite difference scheme with fourth-order accuracy in space and second-order in time is proposed for solving nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. An accelerated monotone iterative method for the resulting discrete problem is presented. The sequence of iteration converges monotonically to the unique solution of the discrete problem, and the convergence rate is either quadratic or nearly quadratic, depending on the property of the nonlinear reaction. The numerical results illustrate the high accuracy of the proposed scheme and the rapid convergence rate of.the iteration.
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文摘Time fractional diffusion equation is usually used to describe the problems involving non-Markovian random walks. This kind of equation is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by replacing the first-order time derivative with a fractional derivative of order α∈(0, 1). In this paper, an implicit finite difference scheme for solving the time fractional diffusion equation with source term is presented and analyzed, where the fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. Stability and convergence of this scheme are rigorously established by a Fourier analysis. And using numerical experiments illustrates the accuracy and effectiveness of the scheme mentioned in this paper.
文摘In this paper, an implicit scheme (also called the θ method) was proposed for the Lattice Bhatager-Gross-Krook (LBGK) model simulating incompressible flows. The new parameter θ made the model more flexible. Through the Chapman-Enskog procedure the impressible Navie-Stokes equations could be recovered with the coupled kinetic viscosity. Boundary conditions were treated briefly and it kept the numerical accuracy of the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). The two-dimensional Poiseuille flow was simulated with different values of the parameters. It is found that the numerical accuracy and stability of the implicit scheme can be improved if some adaptable parameters are chosen.
文摘Three dimensional Euler equations are solved in the finite volume form with van Leer's flux vector splitting technique. Block matrix is inverted by Gauss-Seidel iteration in two dimensional plane while strongly implicit alternating sweeping is implemented in the direction of the third dimension. Very rapid convergence rate is obtained with CFL number reaching the order of 100. The memory resources can be greatly saved too. It is verified that the reflection boundary condition can not be used with flux vector splitting since it will produce too large numerical dissipation. The computed flow fields agree well with experimental results. Only one or two grid points are there within the shock transition zone.
文摘We study numerical methods for level set like equations arising in image processing and curve evolution problems. Semi-implicit finite volume-element type schemes are constructed for the general level set like equation (image selective smoothing model) given by Alvarez et al. (Alvarez L, Lions P L, Morel J M. Image selective smoothing and edge detection by nonlinear diffusion II. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 1992, 29: 845-866). Through the reasonable semi-implicit discretization in time and co-volume method for space approximation, we give finite volume schemes, unconditionally stable in L∞ and W1'2 (W1'1) sense in isotropic (anisotropic) diffu- sion domain.
文摘The key problem in the computation of fluid dynamics using fine boundary-fitted grids is how to improve the numerical stability and decrease the calculating quantity. To solve this problem, implicit schemes should be adopted since explicit schemes may bring about a great increase in computation quantity according to the Courant-FrledrichsLewy condition. Whereas the adoption of implicit schemes is difficult to be realized because of the existence of two partial derivatives of surface elevations with respect to variables of alternative direction coordinates in each momentum equation in non-rectangular coordinates. With an aim to design an implicit scheme in non-reetangular ccordinates in the present paper, new momentum equations with the contravariant components of velocity vector are derived based on the shallow water dynamic equations in generalized curvilinear coordinates. In each equation, the coefficients before the two detivatives of surface elevations have different orders of magnitude, i. e., the derivative with the larger ceefficient rnay play a more important role than that with the smaller one. With this advantage, the ADI scheme can then be easily employed to improve the numerical stability and decrease the calculating quantity. The calculation in a harbour and a channel in Macau nearshore area shows that the implicit model is effective in calculating current fields in small size areas.
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文摘Most algorithms of the immersed boundary method originated by Peskin are explicit when it comes to the computation of the elastic forces exerted by the immersed boundary to the fluid. A drawback of such an explicit approach is a severe restriction on the time step size for maintaining numerical stability. An implicit immersed boundary method in two dimensions using the lattice Boltzmann approach has been proposed. This paper reports an extension of the method to three dimensions and its application to simulation of a massive flexible sheet interacting with an incompressible viscous flow.
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文摘Many interesting applications of hyperbolic systems of equations are stiff,and require the time step to satisfy restrictive stability conditions.One way to avoid small time steps is to use implicit time integration.Implicit integration is quite straightforward for first-order schemes.High order schemes instead also need to control spurious oscillations,which requires limiting in space and time also in the linear case.We propose a framework to simplify considerably the application of high order non-oscillatory schemes through the introduction of a low order implicit predictor,which is used both to set up the nonlinear weights of a standard high order space reconstruction,and to achieve limiting in time.In this preliminary work,we concentrate on the case of a third-order scheme,based on diagonally implicit Runge Kutta(DIRK)integration in time and central weighted essentially non-oscillatory(CWENO)reconstruction in space.The numerical tests involve linear and nonlinear scalar conservation laws.
文摘Strong convergence theorems for approximation of common fixed points of asymptotically Ф-quasi-pseudocontractive mappings and asymptotically C-strictly- pseudocontractive mappings are proved in real Banach spaces by using a new composite implicit iteration scheme with errors. The results presented in this paper extend and improve the main results of Sun, Gu and Osilike published on J. Math. Anal. Appl.
文摘In this paper, an explicit three_level symmetrical differencing scheme with parameters for solving parabolic partial differential equation of three_dimension will be considered. The stability condition and local truncation error for the scheme are r<1/2 and O( Δ t 2+ Δ x 4+ Δ y 4+ Δ z 4) ,respectively.
文摘The tempered fractional calculus has been successfully applied for depicting the time evolution of a system describing non-Markovian diffusion particles.The related governing equations are a series of partial differential equations with tempered fractional derivatives.Using the polynomial interpolation technique,in this paper,we present three efficient numerical formulas,namely the tempered L1 formula,the tempered L1-2 formula,and the tempered L2-1_(σ)formula,to approximate the Caputo-tempered fractional derivative of orderα∈(0,1).The truncation error of the tempered L1 formula is of order 2-α,and the tempered L1-2 formula and L2-1_(σ)formula are of order 3-α.As an application,we construct implicit schemes and implicit ADI schemes for one-dimensional and two-dimensional time-tempered fractional diffusion equations,respectively.Furthermore,the unconditional stability and convergence of two developed difference schemes with tempered L1 and L2-1_(σ)formulas are proved by the Fourier analysis method.Finally,we provide several numerical examples to demonstrate the correctness and effectiveness of the theoretical analysis.
文摘In this work we propose a numerical scheme for a nonlinear and degenerate parabolic problem having application in petroleum reservoir and groundwater aquifer simulation. The degeneracy of the equation includes both locally fast and slow diffusion (i.e. the diffusion coefficients may explode or vanish in some point). The main difficulty is that the true solution is typically lacking in regularity. Our numerical approach includes a regularization step and a standard discretization procedure by means of C0-piecewise linear finite elements in space and backward-differences in time. Within this frame work, we analyze the accuracy of the scheme by using an integral test function and obtain several error estimates in suitable norms.
文摘Automated simulating of power electronics systems is currently performed by means of nodal analysis method combined with implicit numerical integration schemes. Such method allows to find transient solutions, even when the integrated system is stiff, however, it leads to some difficulties when simulating big systems and sometimes to the deterioration of computations quality, that is reflected in decrease in accuracy, oscillations of solutions, which are not present in the initial model. This paper analyzes the shortcomings of this approach, and proposes to apply explicit numerical schemes with stability control on the integration step and with reduction of some of state variables. A brief description of the method of finding transient solutions and an example of the analysis are also given in the present paper.
文摘This research paper represents a numerical approximation to non-linear two-dimensional reaction diffusion equation from population genetics. Since various initial and boundary value problems exist in two-dimensional reaction-diffusion, phenomena are studied numerically by different numerical methods, here we use finite difference schemes to approximate the solution. Accuracy is studied in term of L2, L∞ and relative error norms by random selected grids along time levels for comparison with exact results. The test example demonstrates the accuracy, efficiency and versatility of the proposed schemes. It is shown that the numerical schemes give better solutions. Moreover, the schemes can be easily applied to a wide class of higher dimension nonlinear reaction diffusion equations with a little modification.